Type-holding device.



H. C. GAMMETER.

TYPE HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. a1, 1909.

1,088,41 O, Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

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HARRY C. GAMMETEB, 0F BBATENAHL, OHIO, ASSIGNQR, TO THE AMERICAN MULTIGBAPH C01VIPANY,20F CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

TYPE-HOLDING DEVICE.

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Patented 24:, 1914.

The object of this invention is'to provide a very simple and efficient holder for a line of individual type made up into an address.

ll ly invention provides an address plate adapted to receive and hold a plurality ofparallel lines of individual type, there being means for quickly securing said plate in .place or releasing it, as desired. My plate I when loaded and in place may form a portionof a printing couple or a type assembling or distributing machine, or a combined machine which has assemblage, distribution and printing features after the manner of the multigraph.

The particular characteristicsof the present invention are hereinafter more fully described and are summarized in the claims.

In the drawingFigure 1 is a perspective view of my address plate unloaded; Fig.2

is a plan of such plate loaded and in place, together with the holding mechanism therefor; Fig. 3 is a cross sectlon of the structure shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective of type which may be employed .with my address plate; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross section showing the stop for the type.

Referring to the parts by reference numerals, indicates the address plate itself.

, This is a thin plate, preferably of metal,

which may be flat or curved, according to whether it is designed to be used on a fiat bed machine or one where the form turns about a concentric axis. In the illustration it is curved for the latter use. The plate has a plurality of slots 11 extending from one end well toward the other end. In the drawing there are three of these slots. Near their open ends the slots flare, as shown at 12. On the edges of the plate are suitable notches, as, for example, the notch 13 on one side and the notches 14 and 15 on the opposite side.

The type which cooperates with the address plate has grooves on its opposite sides, as shown in the case of the type in Fig. 4. The type there shown has also a beveled foot 21 which is of use in assembling and distributing, but is not employed unless desired. Such type with the grooved sides and beveled feet are claimed in my Patent #836,026, issued November 13, 1906.

When the type are inserted in the slots 11 they are shoved up against the ends of the slots, as shown in Fig. 2. In this position they are held by suitable elastic plugs which are preferably of rubber and are of the form shown in Fig. 5; that is, these plugs are approximately cylindrical in shape, with grooves on their opposite sides, and the shank of the plug between the grooves is of less width than the distance across the slots 11, while the up and down dimension of the groove shown in Fig. 5, when the plug is removed, is less than the thickness of the plate. The result is that when the plug has been put in place it holds itself there by clamping the top and bottom surfaces of the plate and has no tendency to spread or spring the tines of the plate between the slots.

on a member provided with rails ll having overhanging edges and formed to carry between them rows of individual type of the same character as is carried by the plate itself. he member 40'sh0wn is curved and indicates a cylindrical segment or a complete rotatable drum. Such drum or segment may cooperate with a suitable laten (not shown) making a printing coup e. A certain portion of the printing member 40 has the upper portions or treads of the rails omitted, 'as shown at 42. The address plate is substantially of the thickness of the heads of these rails, so that the plate may be seated on the webs 43, remaining in the cut-out portion, and stand with its outer surface alined with the outer surface of the remaining rails, the webs 43 supporting the plate between the type rows. In other words, the tines of the plate take the place of the heads of corresponding rails. When in place in the recess which is provided in the printing member. the plate may be held in place by suitable clips and 60. The clip 50 is a sheet metal memberriveted to a rib 52 on its underside, which is formed to slide between adjacent rails and stand beneath their heads. This structure engages the rails preferably with sutlicient friction, so that it holds itself in place. This clip 50 has a down-turned lip 53 its notch 13 embraces the tongue 53.

place.

The clip 60 referred to is movably mounted on the printing member on the other side of the address plate from the clip 50. This movable mounting is provided by a suitable rib 62 on the underside of the plate riveted to it, but sliding freely enough between the rails so that the plate may be easily shifted.

This plate 60 is preferably roughened or corrugated on its upper side, as shown at 61, whereby it may be easily shifted by the operators finger. The plate 60 has a pair of tongues 63 and 64 adapted to overhang the openings 14 and 15 of the address plate, or spaces between these openings and between the opening 15 and the adjacent end of the plate, respectively, according to the position of the clip 60. When the tongues 63 and 64 aline with the openings 14 and 15 the address plate may be easilyremoved by being tipped up at that side and drawn out diagonally over the clip 60. When the tongues do not so aline the plate is held in To enable the easy removal of the plate, I provide a spring lying in the groove between two rail webs and beneath the free edge of the plate. This spring need not be anything more than a spring wire. It operates to elevate the edge of the plate when the clip 60 allows it, thereby increasing the ease of removal. A suitable plug, as 80, inserted between two of the adjacent rails may form a stop for the movement of the clip 60.

Such an address plate as described may be very conveniently loaded either by hand or by a suitable assembling machine. in

either case the type are shoved in from the open end of the plate and plugs 30 are installed, being shoved in from the open end. The machine assemblage may be .01 the character set out in my .l atent #722,404, in which case the plate may simply occupy a recess in the periphery of the printing drum, the slots of the plate alining with the journals between adjacent rails. As shown herein, in Fig, 2, the position of the plate on the printing member may be adjusted lengthwise of the rails to give the address the desired position with reference to the body of the letter, it being understood that the body of the letter is composed of individual type carried by rails parallel with the address plate. As shown in Fig. 2, 90 is a suitable marginal stop for limiting the edge of the page form. The edge of the address may alinc therewith, as shown, or it may be shifted either way in the recess 42. When the plate is brought to the extreme left-hand end of the recess in Fig. 2, the tines of the plate abut with the ends of rail heads, and type comprising addresses set up on the printing member may be shoved into the address plate.

When once loaded, my plate will hold its type securely in place against accidental removal. The simple removal of the plugs, however, enables the type to be removed as desired. When loaded, my plates may be installed and removed with great rapidity, by the operator using one hand. He may hold the plate with his thumb and first finger adjacent to the edge having the two notches 14 and 15 and tuck it under the clip 50 and then depress it by the thumb into the recess against the light spring 70, and then with one of his fingers shove the clip 60 to override the plate. The plate may be removed with equal ease by shoving the clip by the operators finger and grasping the free edge of the plate which is then lifted by the spring 70.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination, with a plate having a plurality of slots extending from its extreme end, type grooved on its opposite sides and adapted to occupy the slots, and a printing member having means for holding said plate and rails alining with the tines of the plate between the slots.

2. An address plate having a curved thin body with a plurality of parallel slots extending from one end of the plate toward the other end and being open at one end, combined with a rotatable member having a recess for said plate and having longitudinal rails adapted to aline with the tines of the plate between the slots.

3. A. fastening device for type comprising a slotted plate, grooved type adapted to occupy the same and be held thereby, a printing member having an exterior recess for said plate and having type channels alining'with the slots of the plate when it is' in the recess, and a slidable clip adapted to override the plate to hold it in place in the recess.

4. In a fastening device for type, the combination of a slotted plate having a notched edge, a slidable clip having a tongue which may pass through such notch and override the plate adjacent thereto. and a clip for holding the other edge of the plate.

5. The combination, with a curved mem her having paralleloverhanging longitudinal rails, of a typeholding plate adapted to occupy a recessed portion in such railed member and having separated type lines alining with spaces between the rails, and

certain place, a plate adapted to occupy such cut-away portion and have its inner surface rest on the webs of the cut rails and its outer surface flush with the outer surface of the uncut rails, said plate having slots adapted to aline with the slots between adjacent rails, and type grooved on its opposite sides and occupying the slots of the plate.

8. The combination of a member having headed parallel rails, a portion of which are recessed, an address plate adapted to occupy such recess, a pair of clips for holding said plate, each clip resting on such rails and being provided with members extending beneath the rail heads.

9. The combination of a member having parallel rails with overhanging heads, an address late adapted to occupy a recess in such rai s, a pair of clips for holding said plate, each clip resting on such rails and being provided with members extending be- @llli neath the rail heads, one of said clips being slidable and being provided with a tongue adapted to register with a notch in the edge of the plate or overhang the plate adjacent to the notch.

10. The combination with an address plate slotted from one end andhaving a notch in one edge, of a clip formed to overhang the plate at that edge and having a tongue which may occupy the notch, said plate having a notch on its opposite edge, and a slidable cli having a tongue adapted to be passed t rough the notch and override the plate adjacent thereto.

11. In a typeholding device, the combination of a recessed member, a plate adapted to seat therein, means for holding one edge of the plate, a spring tending to swing the plate about its held edge as a center to move the other edge of the. plate out of the recess, and means adapted to overhang the last-mentioned edge of the plate and hold the same in place.

12. The combination, with a curved railed member adapted .to carry a page form, of a plate shorter than the member and adapted to carry an address and removably mounted on the exterior of such member with the space between the address lines alining with certain rails beyond the end of the late.

13. The combination, with a curved railed member adapted to carry a page form, of a slotted plate adapted to carry an address composed of type projecting above and below the plate and removably mounted on such member, said plate occupying a recess in the exterior surface of the railed member with the outer surface of the plate peripherally alining with the member carrying the page form and the plate intermediately supported between type lines.

14. The combination with a railed member for carrying type, said member having a recessed portion, an address plate adapted to occupy such recessed portion and having type extending above and below the plate, said member having ribs extending between adjacent rows of such type and supporting theplate.

15. The combination of a plate formed with slots extendingto its extreme end, type grooved on its opposite sides occupying the slots so formed, and a suitable support for the plate having a recess which the plate may occupy and ribs extending be tween adjacent slots.

16. The combination of a plate formed with slots extending to its extreme end, type grooved on its opposite sides occupying the slots so formed, a suitable support for the plate having ribs extending between adjacent slots, and a slidable clip for locking'and releasing the plate. v

17. The combination with an address plate slotted from its extreme end, of type grooved on its opposite sides and occupying such slots, and plugs for holding the type in place, said plugs being elastic and occupying the slots and engaging the top and bottom of the plate without engaging the edges thereof at the slots.

18. The combination with a slotted plate adapted to carry grooved .type, of an elastic stop plug occupying such slot and overhanging both surfaces of the plate while free from the Walls in the slot of the plate.

19. The combination of a curved member having parallel ribs and a curved removable address plate having type with projecting feet, and means engaging the plate above and below the address for holdingthe plate on said member with rows of type feet on opposite sides of a rib.

20. The combination with a rotatable member having parallel overhanging rails arranged longitudinally to make an arcual surface of a curved type-holding plate adapted to occupy a recessed portion in such railed member, and means for holding the plate in place with its type line alining with the channels between the rails.

21. The combination of a plate formed with slots extending to its" extreme end, type grooved on its opposite sides occupying theslots so formed, and a rotatable drum adapted to carry the plate and having ribs extending between adjacent slots and overhanging rails adapted to aline with the tines of the plate.

92. The combination of a rotary member,

a curved address plate adapted to seat there- &

on, said plate having parallel slots occupied by grooved individual type, and the rotary member having means for support ing the plate between the type lines.

23. The combination of a rotary member having a recess, an address plate adapted to seat therein, said plate having parallel slots occupied by lines of grooved individual type, and the rotary member having ribs in the recess for Supporting the plate between the type lines.

24. The combination of a slotted plate adapted to carry a line of grooved type, and a stop for such line, said stop occupying such slot and overhanging both surfaces of lines of type, of a plate shorter than the railed member and adapted to carry a plurality of lines of type, and means for removably holding the plate on the member with its type lines longitudinally alining with channels provided by the rails.

27. The combination, with a rotatable member having parallel overhanging rails arranged longitudinally to make an arcual surface, of a curved slotted typeholding plate adapted to occupy a recessed portion in such railed member with the type held between the slots alining with the type held between meagre the rails, and means for holding the plate in place and supporting it between its type lines.

28. A printing member having parallel typeholding rails, and an address plate removably carried by said member and con sisting of a furcated plate and individual type mounted between tines corresponding to the rail heads. Y

29. The combination of a railed membe having a recess, a removable address plate having parallel typeholding edges, and means for holding the plate in the recess with the typeholding edges thereof alining with rails of the railed member.

80. The combination of a member having ,parallel rails with overhanging edges adapted to hold between them lines of type grooved on their opposite sides, a removable typeholder having means for holding parallel lines of type, and means for holding said typeholder on the member with the type lines thereof alining with spaces between rails on said member.

31. The combination of a member having parallel rails with overhanging edges adapted to hold bet-ween them lines of type grooved on their opposite sides, a removable typeholder having means for holding parallel lines of type, means for holding said typeholder on the member with the type lines thereof alining with spaces between rails on said member, and ribs carried by the member and adapted to support the typeholder between the type lines.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto allix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. HARRY C. GAMMETER.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. BATES, WALTER LEROY FLoRY. 

